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The stuff of fable : accounts of embassies in the eighteenth century
Title
The stuff of fable : accounts of embassies in the eighteenth century / Joyce Mitchell Melissinos.
ISBN
9781467582872
1467582875
Publication
[Rochester, New York?] : [publisher not identified], [2013]
Physical Description
xx, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 1995.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 02, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-190) and index.
Contents
The embassies and the accounts of them : definition and scope
John Bell and the embassies to Persia and China of Peter the Great, 1715-1722
Lady Mary Montagu and the embassy to Constantinople, 1716-1718
George Earl Macartney and England's first embassy to China, 1792-1794.
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